Roridomyces irritans

Roridomyces irritans is a species of fungus in the genus Roridomyces, family Mycenaceae. Originally described from New Caledonia as Mycena irritans by Egon Horak in 1978,[2] the species was transferred to Roridomyces in 1994.[3] The fruit bodies are bioluminescent.[4]

Roridomyces irritans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Mycenaceae
Genus: Roridomyces
Species:
R. irritans
Binomial name
Roridomyces irritans
(E.Horak) Rexer (1994)
Synonyms[1]

Mycena irritans E.Horak (1978)

See also

References
  1. "Roridomyces roridus (E. Horak) Rexer 1994". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
  2. Horak E. (1978). "Mycena rorida (Fr.) Quél. and related species from the southern Hemisphere". Berichte der Schweizerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft. 88 (1–2): 20–9. doi:10.5169/seals-62336.
  3. Rexer K-H. (1994). Die Gattung Mycena s.l., Studien zu Ihrer Anatomie, Morphologie und Systematik (Ph.D. thesis) (in German). Tübingen, Germany: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. p. 140.
  4. Desjardin DE, Oliveira AG, Stevani CV (2008). "Fungi bioluminescence revisited". Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 7 (2): 170–82. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.1033.2156. doi:10.1039/b713328f. PMID 18264584.
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